Keeping rgb sane

Okay, here's the plan. You guys can keep talking about liquid-cooled
systems; I'll distract him with a "real" question:
Speaking of heatsinks, what are people using these days on
their Beowulf nodes? The cheap stock Intel coolers work fine
on the last thing I bought (866 MHz PIII's), but the trend
toward higher power is clear -- I don't expect they'll cut it
on a 1.3 GHz Athlon. I've seen various "cooler roundups" on
the hardware review sites, but they lack two things I want:
pricing information, for our beloved price/performance
tradeoffs; and a sense of what constitutes "good enough"
cooling for a given processor. Of course, the latter depends
on a lot of variables. Dedicated clusters often have the
advantage of a well cooled room to live in, and the disadvantage
of exercising their CPU's harder than the average home user
ever does.
So, I'd be interested to hear what other clusterers are using
for cooling. As usual, I'm reluctant to spend $10 (or $20, or
$30) more per node than I have to.
Sam Pottle
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